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Consider the experiment in which a coin is tossed repeatedly until a head comes up. Describe the sample space.

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In the experiment head may come up on first toss, or the 2nd toss, or the 3rd toss and so on till head is obtained.

Hence, the desired sample space is S={H,TH,TTH,TTTH,TTTTH,⋯}
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